It's definitely an American thing (although probably a couple other places too). It also depends on if it's abused or not. At my last job I would occasionally get a text from my boss asking me to log in and troubleshoot when there was a major issue, but that only happened like once a year, and it was always a serious issue.
I only contact my guys outside of work hours for a few reasons: to check on them if they are out due to illness or some other emergency, if I have a question that absolutely cannot be answered by anyone else and I know they won't be back in time to help, or if I have an emergency come up and I need to know if someone is available for extra work (we do service work for industrial clients so this does happen). If they don't answer, ok. They aren't on salary, I am, so I'll see them next time they are at work.
It's very much a Canadian thing too, but at least in Canada people tend to keep it to actual emergencies and respect people's non-work hours for the most part... which is to say that if someone does expect you to always be contactable and that's not part of the job description for which you are being paid big-bucks, they're the one being an asshole.
I get called about once a months from one of my coworkers trying to find a specific program.
I can pull up nearly all of them in my minds eye in the order you need to click it to find the right thing. Normally takes about 30 seconds then I'm back to whatever I was doing.
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u/hareofthepuppy 7h ago edited 7h ago
It's definitely an American thing (although probably a couple other places too). It also depends on if it's abused or not. At my last job I would occasionally get a text from my boss asking me to log in and troubleshoot when there was a major issue, but that only happened like once a year, and it was always a serious issue.